Atypical seasonal freight volumes increase

According to the infrastructure of "Latvijas dzelzceļš", the freight volume carried out this year for tonnkilometers exceeded by 1.4% the indicators of the first half of the previous year which shows that the distance of goods transport on the territory of Latvia has increased. In addition, over the last three months, the seasonal nature of the above volumes, which tends to decrease volumes, is unusually high, freight volumes have increased: they carried a total of four million tonnes in June, or 28.5 tonnes. % more than last year. A particularly strong increase this semester was observed in the rail link with Belarus.

Traffic growth in six months is observed in all transport groups – domestic, export, import and transit. An increase of 35.7% in minerals, 42.6% in wood and 28.4% in chemical transport. In the last month, compared to June of the previous year, the volume of coal transport (+ 49.5%), the transportation of petroleum products and the transport of ores, wood and minerals increased by 7.2%.

Compared to last year, the share of Belarusian freight in the total volume of imports and transit transport has increased significantly compared to the previous year, from 15.7% l & # 39; last year to 25.5% this year. The total volume of goods traffic in the railways between Belarus and Latvia amounted to 14.7 million. tonnes, of which 5.75 mln. tons or 56.4% more than last year were Belarussian cargoes.

"The cooperation with the Belarusian Railways has always been successful, but in recent years we have greatly improved it, including last year we discovered the representation of LDz in In Belarus, the increase in the volume of goods is a logical result of the work invested: From Belarus to the ports of Latvia, new types of cargo have been launched this year.With our Belarusian colleagues, we have created a new offers for goods owners – the Minsk-Riga express train – we are improving the process to get goods to customers faster and thus increase the volume of this route, including cooperation with terminals to ensure the most unloading goods and wagons ", explains Edvins Bērziņš, president of LDZ.

In the first half of 2018, there was one in increase in the direction of Latvia to Belorussia – 82.2 vintages. tonnes or 19.1% more compared to the badogue period of 2017. The structure of export freight consists mainly of food products, metals and ferroalloys, as well as other merchandise. In turn, the transit of land freight between the two countries amounted to 1.38 mln. tonnes, 2.1 times more than in 2017.

Container shipments during the first half were 2842 TEUs, or 13% more than last year over the same period.

Since October 2017, an electronic waybill has been used for the treatment of private wagons, which greatly speeds up and facilitates the movement of wagons between the two countries, allowing customers to recover their rolling stock more quickly in traffic. Bilateral Agreement between Latvia and Belarus.

SJSC "Latvijas dzelzceļš" is the manager of the public use of the railway infrastructure and the management company of the company "Latvijas dzelzceļš". The Group also includes six subsidiaries – AS LatRailNet, which determines the infrastructure charges and distributes the rail infrastructure capacity, SIA LDZ CARGO, which provides rail freight and international pbadenger transport services, SIA LDZ infrastruktūra, The repair and maintenance of the rolling stock company SIA LDZ, the security company SIA LDZ Apsardze and the logistics company SIA LDZ Logistics

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